{"id":133,"date":"2019-11-03T10:01:02","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T15:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/mitchumlab\/?page_id=133"},"modified":"2023-05-08T13:35:04","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T17:35:04","slug":"kheeman-kwon-ph-d-student","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/mitchumlab\/kheeman-kwon-ph-d-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Kheeman Kwon, Ph.D. Student"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"133\" src=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/mitchumlab\/files\/2019\/12\/kheeman100x133.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1242\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Academic Background<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>M.S. Crop Sciences, concentration Plant Pathology, University of Illinois, 2018<br>B.S. Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Illinois, 2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Research Interests and Current Efforts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kheeman Kwon, a PhD student in the Department of Plant Pathology, studies soybean cyst nematode (SCN) virulence genes involved in overcoming host resistance. More specifically, his&nbsp;research is focused on identifying SCN virulence genes used by the nematode to break the Peking-type resistance. Using RNA-seq data generated from SCN inbred populations that are highly adapted on soybean recombinant inbred lines which only differ at the<i>&nbsp;Rhg4<\/i>&nbsp;locus, he is conducting&nbsp;a reference-based transcriptomic analysis with the aid of the SCN genome.&nbsp;This approach is allowing him to identify differentially expressed genes, some of which&nbsp;may encode putative stylet-secreted effector(s) that could play a pivotal role in breaking this type of resistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>Kwon KM<\/b>, Bekal S, Domier LL, and Lambert KN. Active and inactive forms of biotin synthase occur in&nbsp;<i>Heterodera glycines<\/i>.&nbsp;<i>Journal of Nematology<\/i>&nbsp;2019, 51:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.exeley.com\/exeley\/journals\/journal_of_nematology\/51\/i_current\/pdf\/10.21307_jofnem-2019-069.pdf\">DOI: 10.21307\/jofnem-2019-069.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Academic Background M.S. Crop Sciences, concentration Plant Pathology, University of Illinois, 2018B.S. Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Illinois, 2015 Research Interests and Current Efforts Kheeman Kwon, a PhD student in the Department of Plant Pathology, studies soybean cyst nematode (SCN) virulence genes involved in overcoming host resistance. More specifically, his&nbsp;research is focused on identifying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-with-sidebar","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-133","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/mitchumlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/mitchumlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/mitchumlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/mitchumlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/mitchumlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/mitchumlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1565,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/mitchumlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/133\/revisions\/1565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/mitchumlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}